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## Building and running
make
export DATA_SOURCE_NAME="login:password@(hostname:port)/dbname"
export DATA_SOURCE_NAME="postgres://postgres:password@localhost/?sslmode=disable"
./postgres_exporter <flags>
See the github.com/lib/pg module for other ways to format the connection string.
### Flags
Name | Description
@ -35,4 +37,4 @@ for l in StringIO(x):
print """"{0}" : {{ prometheus.CounterValue, prometheus.NewDesc("pg_stat_database_{0}", "{2}", nil, nil) }}, """.format(column.strip(), ctype, description.strip())
```
Adjust the value of the resultant prometheus value type appropriately. This helps build
rich self-documenting metrics for the exporter.
rich self-documenting metrics for the exporter.